Swimmer's Daily

Category: Training

  • Ask The Dryland Coach: Getting Back Into Training

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    Some interesting exercises here, courtesy of USA Swimming & Mike Mejia, M.S., C.S.C.S.: ‘X Squat’, ‘Jumping Jack to Reverse Lunge’, ‘Bootstrappers’, ‘Thoracic Rotations’, ‘Spiderman Elevation Change’, ‘Figure 4 Bridge’, ‘Windshield Wipers’ and ‘Standing Bird Dog’.

  • 2 clever coaches in Kastrup

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    Went to Korsør in Denmark last weekend, to attend the annual “Aqua Clinic“, featuring Sean Kelly this year, head coach at Stockport Metro (Keri-Anne Payne, James Goddard, (quarter Faroese) David Carry and others). He was great, tough but emphatic, thinking not only about what happens in the pool, but also about his swimmers’ and coaches’…

  • Lotte Friis sprained her wrist and some fingers yesterday

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    Breaking news on Ekstra Bladet: Danish world champion Lotte Friis got her foot stuck during a jump over some booms yesterday, and fell so badly that she afterwards couldn’t move her hand and fingers. It took 4-5 hours to get a diagnosis, while she feared to be out for 2 months because of something broken,…

  • Bovell pulls out of the Pan American Games

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    George Bovell III wil not represent Trinidad and Tobago at the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico next month, due to his ongoing recovery from head injuries sustained in a car crash last month. First day back from George Bovell on Vimeo. Bovell was heading to Mayaro to go spear-fishing following a training session…

  • SWIM – a George Bovell III training video

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    You think it comes by itself ? Below the first part and intro of a multipart season long series about preparing for the upcoming 2012 Olympics. Courtesy of George Bovell III. SWIM from George Bovell on Vimeo.

  • NSWIS launches a world first altitude training pool cover

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    The NSW Institute of Sport (NSWIS) and Altitude Technology Solutions (ATS) today launched a revolutionary new altitude training system at the Sydney Olympic Park Aquatic Centre. The new system, a pool-based training system, is a canopy which covers two, 25 metre lanes of a swimming pool. The design includes a hypoxic system that generates an…

  • “A family that swims together stays together”

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    Super (personal) blog post by Mel Stewart here on Gold Medal Mel, on being a swim-parent. The video is his wife’s idea, to capture of their daughter ‘while she’s still a kid, still prone to dancing spontaneously, painting her face randon bright colors, playing with dolls.’ One person, a coach I love and respect, told…

  • Kirsty Coventry will train in Monaco until the Olympics

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    Interesting, Kirsty Coventry will move to Monaco in September, to train there until the Olympics, thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene. Do we have a new international training center developing there, thanks to a swimmer turned princess ? Via The Swimmers Circle. Thanks to the Patronage of Princess Charlene from mid Sept, I’ll be…

  • 2-year-old Caitlin clocks 9 meters in 47 seconds

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    Caitlin Morris from Stourport, England started learning to swim when she was 9 months old – 6 months before she could walk. Now she manages 9 meters in 47 seconds using a doggy-paddle style stroke, an ability that her instructor at Baba Seahorse rates as that of a 4-year-old. Here below she swims alongside big…